imagine if other countries treated english in such a dumb & literal way like “here comes donald trump, america’s one-who-watches-over”
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white ppl love translating 加油 as “add oil” instead of like “you go” or something as if a single chinese person actually thinks abt oil when saying that and all language isn’t decomposable & metaphorical to a degree
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constantly thinking about how i thought my driving teacher was cheering me on when she was literally trying to get me to step on the gas
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lol i always think about oil - isn't it like for races like i interpreted the translation to be add fuel?
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its more complicated than a "white ppl love" thing though: see this (very cute) "add oil" chant from the Hong Kong protestshttps://www.facebook.com/lynnl/videos/10156266658067554/ …
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